Word: warm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Adlai Stevenson many Minnesotans saw a precise talker without much to say, a philosophizer whose philosophy did not clearly emerge-a man they did not really like or even understand. In Estes Kefauver they saw a big, friendly, folksy politician whose comfortable generalities were easy to take and whose warm hand was easy to shake. As reporters combed over the bones of the Minnesota contest, one voter after another spoke of Kefauver as "a down-to-earth man of the people...
...from acting like enemies who had been staring icicles at each other for weeks. Olympic Champion Albright and World Champion Heiss all but smothered each other in warm hugs for the benefit of photographers. All that talk of a feud between them, volunteered Carol's mother, Marie, was "started by a newspaperwoman." But when they skated onto the rink, all became cold precision...
...Theologian Buber and associate professor of Jewish ethics and mysticism at Manhattan's Jewish Theological Seminary. Twinkle-eyed Dr. Heschel, a small man located beneath a bush of grey hair, labors in a blue haze of cigar smoke, and writes prose that sings and soars in the warm, intuitive tradition of the great 18th century Hasidic leaders from whom he is descended. His just-published book. God in Search of Man (Farrar, Straus & Cudahy; $5), is. subtitled "A Philosophy of Judaism," but it speaks to all those men for whom the Bible is a holy book...
...Billy Graham were coming only to warm the hearts of the faithful and to effect a few genuine 'conversions' among those whose lives are confused and disorganized and who are sorely in need of a confrontation with the living God as revealed in Christ, we would not feel apprehensive about Billy Graham. But he comes with a well-organized team of publicity experts who will use all their talents and his to 'put him across' on radio and television and all the organs of mass communications...
Olivier sees marvelously much, but there is something vital he overlooks: that there was warm blood as well as cold in Richard's medieval veins. By playing it completely cold in the first half of the play, he forfeits much of the sympathy that is due Richard in the second. Nevertheless, give or take a bit here and there, the best actor of his time has presented the moviegoer with the best Richard of this generation. In Shakespeare's words: "The king enacts more wonders than...